The Asia Pacific Network of HIV Social Researchers aims to build a network of social researchers throughout Asia and the Pacific who have an interest in HIV social research. This network will increase dialogue, opportunities and research partnerships between social researchers throughout the region.

The Asia Pacific Network for HIV Social Researchers is designed to act as a support structure for HIV social researchers to enable them to increase their research capacity and to encourage multi-country applications for research funding.

The Women's Health Research Network (WHRN) is a catalyst for bringing together innovative groupings of gender and women's health researchers and research collaborations drawn from academic, health service, policy and community settings.

It fosters the generation, application and mainstreaming of new knowledge and is specifically dedicated to women's health research that will increase the understanding of and capacity for sex and gender-based analyses and for integrating women's health concerns into other areas of health research.

Global funding for HIV/AIDS has increased dramatically during the past five years. Three global HIV/AIDS initiatives are together contributing most of the direct external funding to scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care: The World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program including the Multi-country AIDS Program; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

The Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network (GHIN) is a network of researchers in 21 countries that explores the effects of these Global Health Initiatives on existing health systems. The network is focusing on collecting evidence of these effects from regions, facilities and services, and communities, in order to inform policy development at national and international level.

The International Resourcce Network (IRN) was created to connect researchers from both academic and community bases in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders. The IRN was established to be a venue for the international exchange of information related to sexual and human rights from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies.

The Paulo Longo Research Initiative (PLRI) is a collaboration of scholars, policy analysts and sex workers. Its aims are to develop and consolidate ethical, interdisciplinary scholarship on sex work to encourage policy that helps improve the lives of men, women and transgenders who sell or buy sex. The PLRI's founding partners include the Institute of Development Studies, the Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation, the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine of Monash University Medical School, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.

Established in 2008 the PLRI brings together institutions and people that are committed to human rights and social justice and who have made significant contributions to the study of public health, gender, sexuality, development economics, migration, ethics and human rights in the context of sex work. Although the founding partners are mainly concerned with developing countries the PLRI will have a global focus that also recognises important issues and debates around sex work in North America and Europe.

The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia hosts The International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy (IWGSSP), a global forum of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions. The IWGSSP seeks to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives. Current projects include the Policy Monitoring Project, which will include a series of in-country and institutional case studies of sexuality-related policies and an analysis of the intersection between case studies and global sexuality initiatives, and the development of an annotated bibliography on sexual rights available here. 

Kent University in conjunction with Keele and Westminster Universities supports the Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality. This centre has a postgraduate development and training program and has a strong focus on gender and law. The centre for LGS facilitates the analysis, investigation and understanding of the relationship between Law, Gender and Sexuality. It seeks to broaden this field of studies by using humanities methods (philosophical, historical, doctrinal, literary and cultural) to analyse legal issues relating to gender and sexuality.

AFRO-NETS, the African Networks for Health Research and Development in association with local and international universities such as Umea University, Sweden and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine offers short courses in Epidemiology and Field Research Methods, Research Methodology, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Research.